Evaluation 2- How does my media production represent particular social groups?

Our film consists of the stereotypical 'gang' of teenage boys.These boys are like a stereotypical version of 'bitchy' teenage girls. It is a generic convention to have one main social group so we made sure this featured in our film. Our film features a couple of different social groups, which are represented in the title sequence and opening scene. One of these social groups in our film are the lower class 'chavs'. These are Jay and Tyrell, they are considered to be the bullies of the school and throughout Student Exchange they try and make Peter's school life a misery. In most teen angst films, there is stereotypically 'chavs' or bullies involved. In our film, the lower class 'chavs' are stereotypically represented, we did this by making one the 'chavs' smoke in the scene and they also wear a hooded jumper, both of these props are iconography of bullies or 'chavs'. We go the idea of the use of these props through the film kidadulthood, which is based in London, which is stereotypical for 'chavs'. Tyrell and Jay are similar to the two 'chavs' in kidadulthood as they both instantly judge new people and stares at them, they also like to use violence to get their points across.

The second group of teenagers that appear in the film are the stereotypical group of 'popular boys'. These are the boys who are only interested in what there appearance is and girls.We firstly introduce the group within the title sequence. We featured them in the title sequence to show the variety of groups in our film. They all wear stereotypical fashionable clothing and are all very vain. Within many teen angst films there is usually a popular girls group and a popular boys group. For example, within Mean Girls there is a popular group  who are referred to as 'the plastics'. They are classed as the hot girls that everyone looks up to.  When it comes to the boys, they are stereotypically sporty, good looking and popular with the girls. The group of boys who feature in our film are all part of the football team so they play sport which means that they are fit. Like Aaron Samuels in mean girls, he plays for the schools football team and gets all the popular girls. 

This is stereotypical of a male. Because of their popularity, they come across as dominant over the other groups especially the 'geeks'. Which leads me on the next social group that we have in our film.
We included these because there is always one group that is unpopular and seen as not being attractive or physically fit. For example in grease the geeks have glasses and generally have a passion for school and work which is also stereotypical. Also within mean girls they are the group that are seen as the 'losers' and get no attention especially from the popular groups. 

For our main character Peter we decided that we were going to base him on zac efron in 17 again. This is because he is new to the school as well and doesn't belong in a social group. He doesn't fit in very well, especially with the schools bully. Within stereotypical teen angst movies there is sometimes one character that finds it socially hard to fit in with others. We emphasise this by using Jay as a way of stopping Peter from ever gaining any confidence. Because of this it represents a social issue of today which is bullying. It shows the audience that Peter is weak and vulnerable, which makes the audience connect with Peter and feel sympathy for him. However when Peter lived in Poland where he was originally from he was popular and had a lot of confidence due to the amount of friends and girls he had running after him. 

Also as it is both Sarah and Peters first day the automatically become friends as they are both in the same shoes and have the same feelings as they have no friends. This is also a USP of our film because it shows a boy and a girl being just friends and having a close bond. This is because our film is targeted for boys. Most stereotypical boys prefer seeing fights and violence, unlike girls who love romance. As most teen angst films are targeted for girls, it's usually involves romance. Meaning the boy and girl will get together and fall in love, where as our film doesn't. For example in 16 wishes and Angus thongs and perfect snogging, the best friends fall in love and began a relationship, however out characters stick to being friends.